Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
Five Eyes, the international intelligence agency, recruits MI6 agent Orson Fortune to prevent the sale of a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order.
- Released:
- Runtime: 114 minutes
- Genre: Action, Comedy, Thrillers
- Stars: Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Hugh Grant, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone, Max Beesley, Eddie Marsan, Eugenia Kuzmina, Peter Ferdinando, Lourdes Faberes, Sam Douglas, Oliver Maltman, Sinan Yildiz, Vincent Wang, Kaan Urgancıoğlu
- Director: Guy Ritchie
Comments
- MovieBoy-3 - 20 April 2024
Absolute quality
This is a very efficient movie; high quality action scenes with no unnecessarily long car chase scenes, fast, perfectly timed fight sequences (not too fast to the point where they are bordering on boring and silly unrealism) - the comedy is pure gold (not true lies comedy, far better quality with excellent delivery from all cast). These actors work incredibly well together, Aubrey Plaza is excellent as always, Jason Statham is a solid actor as well as sportsman and Hugh Grant, who i never liked in the 90s is one of my new favourites, he did a brilliant job. I'm a product of 80s and 90s tv/movies, i'm not a fan of CGI theme park movies and it takes a lot to make me want to watch a movie again. The days of Forrest Gump, Shawshank, Con Air, Snatch, Braveheart etc etc seem to be long gone but as far as action movies go, this one was done very very well indeed. Highly recommended, don't list to anyone who discredits it just because they did a year in media school and had to analyse Battleship Potemkim once. They wouldn't know a quality movie if it slapped them in the bollocks. - micz81 - 21 December 2023
This is just rubbish, sorry.
Hugh Grant's character - played on the border between funny and scary - is the only thing making this movie somehow entertaining. His presence makes you stick to the screen - just to investigate his intentions and maybe be surprised by his methods of dealing with friends and/or enemies. The rest of the 'pack' is just absolutely below my expectations - even Audrey Plaza's unbelievable comedy talent was wasted here by not creating contexts in the story suitable enough for her to shine in. Jason Statham is Jason Statham. Period. JJ guy is completely forgettable as a character.
And all this mess looks like a cheap knock-off/hybrid of Kingsman, Mission Impossible, Tarantino and others. Full of so called 'nods' or 'tribute scenes' which does not bring anything to the table in terms of story, narrative, climate. Packed with forced unnatural dialogues, sticked to the characters almost as a result of a lottery. If I didn't knew it was Guy Ritchie's movie, I would not even guess in that direction - that's how bloody amateur attempt at entertainment it is.
Avoid paying for seeing this.. - lumieretrain - 27 October 2023
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre by Guy Ritchie
Telling a spy story with action, humor, plot twists, and thrilling surprises, is still fascinating to see how the main characters will take their next step while making several plans, whenever they need to find out some unexpected mysteries or even whenever they find themselves in some of the most dangerous circumstances that seem to have no escape. The filmmaker Guy Ritchie immediately went to make an entertaining spy movie, with some of the cast who have already worked in his previous projects, including Jason Statham and Hugh Grant. As Guy Ritchie did not like how the script came out, he rewrote it to have even let the cast improvise until he is satisfied with the result. Everything seems going well, until the movie was postponed to a year, as its original release was supposed to be in 2022, for different several reasons. After a long time of work, in 2023 came out Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre by Guy Ritchie, with Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Hugh Grant, Josh Hartnett, Bugzy Malone, and Peter Ferdinando. The movie's plot: Special agent Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) with a team of some of the world's best operatives, Sarah Fidel (Audrey Plaza), Nathan Jasmine (Cary Elwes), and J. J. Davies (Bugzy Malone), must track down and stop the sale of a stolen high-tech device wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant), to even recruit Hollywood's biggest movie star Danny Francesco (Josh Hartnett), before the deadly weapon gets to the highest bidder and disrupt the world order. Since the announcement of the movie, the audience and the critics have been curious to see how it will come out, even though they needed to wait after it has been postponed to the next year. The movie turned out to be an entertaining spy story, filled with plot twists, humor and explosive surprises, with an energetic rhythm that will keep the audience and the critics be thrilled from the beginning to the end. The production designer Martin John has created the settings to have a specific look on how the main characters will face any kinds of danger, as they always stay in guard to look around and making sure nothing unexpectedly might happen to them, until they are ready to react. The costume designer Tina Kalivas has elaborated the costumes to have a specific look to show how the main characters will dress up with clothes, which help them to stay hidden from the eyes of their opponents and let them be dynamic whenever they need to move fast as well as they need to fight. The stunt team has created the action sequences to be dynamically thrilling, whenever the main characters need to respond to any kind of danger they find themselves to face, and making sure they get as soon as possible to the safety. The director of photography Alan Stewart has captured the humor, the action sequences, and the plot twists, in every camera movements and in every angle shots needed for the story to be shown, by making the movie unforgettably thrilling with unexpected surprises through an energetic rhythm that elevates the tension of the audience and the critics until something unexpected gets shown. The editor James Herbert has created the narration's rhythm of the movie that tells the humor and the action of the story, through an energetic rhythm without letting the audience and the critics get confused, about what is going to happen in the next step of the story, especially when the main characters must fight whenever they take a definitive decision, as they realize they need to find a new plan to face their obstacles and telling some jokes at each other. The visual effects have been elaborated to add furthermore details needed to make the story more spectacular in every pixel needed to be seen in every frame captured by the camera, while still showing the grounded practical effects that give a perfect mix of the story for the energetic scope to be seen, without letting the audience and the critics being bored or even distracted. The score by Chris Benstead has been elaborated to create thrilling musical notes for the most energetic moments of the movie, while still having musical notes that maintain the humor of the story. Jason Statham did an excellent performance as Orson Fortune, the special agent who takes part of a team of some of the world's best operatives to face a very dangerous mission, while using a lot of humor and make fun of the team as well as the unexpected situations he will face with the team. Aubrey Plaza did an excellent performance as Sarah Fidel, one of the world's best operative who shows to be more skilled than what Orson Fortune has believed, to even make fun of him. Cary Elwes did a well done performance as Nathan Jasmine, the one who recruits the team to accomplish the mission after getting called by the British government, without having any positive expectations about Orson Fortune, even though he does not have any other choices to take. Hugh Grant did an excellent performance as Greg Simmonds, the billionaire arms broker who takes action for his own purpose to be humorous, to believe so strongly he commits a good intention through his decisions. Josh Hartnett did a well done performance as Danny Francesco, the Hollywood's biggest movie star who gets recruited in the world's best operatives team, he will initially be enormously intimidated until he is strong enough to face the danger. Bugzy Malone did an excellent performance as J. J. Davies, one of the world's best operative who will do anything to make sure the mission will be accomplished, even unexpected surprises might come at the team. Peter Ferdinando did a well done performance as Mike Hook, the rival of Nathan Jasmine who has been hired as well for the mission, and will do anything to make sure no one will ever dare to interfere him. Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre is an entertaining spy story, filled with plot twists, humor and explosive surprises, with an energetic rhythm that will keep the audience and the critics be thrilled from the beginning to the end. - sjbsgjj - 9 January 2023
Usually a Fan of Guy Ritchie....but this was terrible.
I just don't understand how this movie can be rated so highly. Between the ridiculous dialogue and the bollywoodesque storyline, and not to mention the questionable casting.....I struggled to give this even a 1. Apart from a few moments of talent from Hugh Grant - I must advise you all to stay away...
It's two hours of my life I will never get back. Judging by the comments I heard from others in the cinema - I don't think my review was that far off...
Aubrey Plaza, albeit a gifted actor, made this movie even harder to watch. The entire plot makes no sense and was void of the usual witty, smart plots Ritchie is known for. - sudija33 - 6 January 2023
Professional cashgrab
Highly disappointed with this movie. I don't know if I had too high of an expectation but the movie was a huge let down.
Acting was mediocre(except for Mr Grant), action was meaningless and dumb most of the time, comedic relief was slow and far between.
The story itself is really what drags this movie down tho, the premise is bad, unimaginative and full of plotholes. The scenario seems rushed, the dialog is abysmal and one liners are abundant and unfunny.
Filmography is ok-ish, there are a couple of good scenes, but most is outlandish but not in a good way.
All in all, this movie(franchise if they get away with it) is sadly just a huge cash grab with no real essence.
If it wasn't a Guy Ritchie nobody would even know it exists.
